I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

Garrett Hedlund

And Love, our light at night and shade at noon, Lulls us to rest with songs, and turns away All shafts of shelterless tumultuous day.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter. In fact, both homo - and heterosexual experimental subjects have been conditioned to react sexually to an old boot, and you can save a lot of money that way.

William S. Burroughs

Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

Raymond Hull

My unusual beauty tip is that I often use Vaseline to take my make up off. It works great and is good for sensitive skin.

Rachel Bilson

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

William Ellery Channing

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

William Hazlitt

So long as you do not achieve social liberty, whatever freedom is provided by the law is of no avail to you.

B. R. Ambedkar

I'm probably something like 95% chicken nugget

Jeff Kinney

Speech is always bolder than action.

Friedrich von Schiller

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Jacqueline Carey

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.

Will Rogers